[129b-449]

2 May 1817

Plan Cat

Note

Introd

§18. Interests adverse

Constitution

Speakercraft

{364}

5

Not employed

As for the suspicion here manifested it is one which consistently with any sincere regard for the small remnant of liberty still left could not on such an occasion as the present be dissembled.

As to the grounds of it they have though dispersedly been already brought to view: in general terms the extraordinary measure /degree/ of appropriate active talent as well as of appropriate intellectual aptitude applicable ad libitum so conspicuous in the quarter from whence the danger comes conjoined with the so unhappily and equally notorious hostility to /as towards/ the only remedy: the price which in the article of reputation in so far as concerns appropriate probity (understood always in the sense in which probity is understood by swinish multitude) this too real representative of the pretended representative of the people has been content to pay for the faculty of employing his power and his talents in this disastrous work.

1. On the occasion of the Debate in seat traffic going out of his way for the purpose of denouncing as enemies to the Constitution all persons /those/ by whom the only remedy, to the corruption against which for form sake he was inveighing, had been or could be supported +

2. On the occasion of the Bill for the suppression of such traffic the extraordinary and but too successful pains taken to save the corruption /corrupt traffic/ from the prohibition in question the corrupt traffic in the case of its being carried on by the Ministers of the Crown from that prohibition which was extended to all other cases / to save from prohibition /that corrupt traffic/ in the only case in which it is mischievous that corrupt traffic from that prohibition which he was employing himself in attaching to it in the cases whereof if not absolutely, it is comparatively, not to say absolutely, it has been shewn to be innoxious.